skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some cases where not knowing the price is reasonable. As you say, shipping can often only be calculated if you know all items and their destination. If you advertise on national TV you can't name a price that includes sales price (unless the company eats the difference). But these could be treated as tightly regulated necessary evils, not as a justification that showing final prices is always impossible.

There is no reason you can't show final price including tax on the label in a physical shop. There is no reason why a restaurant should be able to charge a 20% service charge instead of increasing regular prices by 20%. If you are buying a concert ticket or airline ticket the displayed price should include all mandatory fees. They can upsell you on additional services, but they can't suddenly notice in the last checkout step that your price is higher because the website you are using is charging a fee; that fee was known to them at the beginning of the transaction and should have to be disclosed at that point in time at the latest. If you want to go even further you can also dictate that shipping and handling fees are only allowed to include reasonable costs of actual shipping and handling.

All of these are normal common-sense regulations in most first-world countries.
exaaaaaactly. this, all the way. (i wrote the bollard post.)

> It's actually much crazier, but you will find it hard to believe.

I kept having this experience, as professional, licensed engineers would tell me, with their whole mouth, and a straight face, things like "we cannot protect pedestrians because it might hurt a car."

Me:

Who _the fuck_ do you think drives the cars?

The false dichotomy in america between 'pedestrians' and 'cars' is entirely downstream of the class-based ethnic cleansing ushered in by municipal planning agencies in the 1920s-1960s. They couldn't say "we don't want black people here", but they could say "we want only the kinds of people who drive cars _here_".
Limiting, but it looks like a valid solution. Android's native i18n is a mess.

We went down the route of duplicating strings between `/values-heb` and `/values-iw` to fix the platform issues, even though the change from `iw` -> `heb` was enacted in ISO 639:1989.[0]

OP's change is questionable in that it may block regional dialects: `[zh-CN, zh-TW]; [pt-PT, pt-BR]` in case the system default is set incorrectly, but it will suffice for most Android apps which will realistically only be in a small subset of 'easy' languages.

[0] https://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html (revised 1989)
There are court rulings saying something different.
Yeah. I was thinking it might be something like this, which, I mean, it's a somewhat plausible argument if there's some additional context. On its own though, it seems like a bit of a stretch, and I am inclined to think that if you have to stretch that far for something, constitutionally protected rights should prevail. They shouldn't be curtailed on the grounds that somebody's words merely could be interpreted a certain way without at least some evidence that they are either meant to be, and/or will be.

I'm sure part of the argument is that he was expressing his opinion while being interviewed as "The CEO of Amazon", not merely being the CEO at the same time as he made the remarks, but still...

Having done a bit of reading it seems the judge might not be totally impartial, so that might explain it. So it might just get overturned at a higher court anyway.
It doesn't really have a fixed objective. It's mostly played for fun.

The idea of Pokemon was started by Satoshi Tajiri who used to like discovering and catching insects and other small creatures locally. From that developed finding Pokemon and having them fight was added to make more of a game out of it. It's now the world's highest grossing media franchise with $88bn revenue according to Wikipedia, way ahead of that Marvel and Harry Potter nonsense. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media...)

It's a bit up to players if they want to casually collect, or fight or compete or whatever. In Pokemon Go at any rate.
I think perhaps you're underappreciating the difficulty of physical distribution. Having one's voice heard has always been the domain of the rich and powerful. Sure, platforms control promotion and discoverability today, but I doubt that gives them more strength to control dissenting views than was available in the days of the printing press.
Truly amazing that you consider your opinion matters on anything like this considering your comment history.
The fact that you can create a crypto more easily today has nothing to do with whether or not crypto is a commodity (though I suspect that point is not really why you made this comment).

It's the fact that there's an overwhelming number of exchanges that willingly accept crypto from other exchanges coupled with the fact that anyone can mine/produce crypto. The moment that there were two places to get BTC that accept BTC from each other in exchange for money, it was a commodity.
Although technically tempting, I think most people don't want to have a transcript/recording of person to person calls, especially in a work context. Even if you aim for "just" an AI summary, there has to be a recording, there has to be a transcript somewhere. Do you trust in the promise of deletion?

Self-censorship, preference and knowledge falsification come to mind. People behave differently when there is no expectation of privacy, when they know they're observed. Apart from employment consequences, social alienation and mental health impact, panopticism may negatively affect creativity and innovation, when people behave less impulsive and more agreeable.

In my practical experience, (local) transcription also tends to be anything, but instant, if you don't allocate significant compute to the task. So your summary may not be available for some time after the call ended. You may need to cognitively backtrack quite a bit to confirm plausibility/"correctness" of the AI production.

Management will love it, everyone else will grow to hate it.

For me, at least, private personal talks/calls are the last bastion of interpersonal bonding and social relief in the modern (remote) work environment.
> What percentage of people have microplastics in their body? Or have been previously infected by common childhood illness? I’m

Unless 95% of these populations also are assured an Alzheimer's diagnosis by 82, your chosen confounding statistics may have little bearing on how closely double copies of the APOE4 gene is associated with Alzheimer's diagnoses.
Record-breaking heat in UAH satellite data
They just reported the highest monthly anomaly on record for April
Thanks, if anyone else is interested there is an explanation of this feature here: https://subtxt.in/library-data/2016/03/28/json_stream_jq And: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/wiki/FAQ#streaming-json-parser

The last time I tried, I think the reason I gave up on JQ for large inputs was that the throughput would max out at 7mb/s whereas the same thing with spark SQL on the same hardware (MacBook) would max out at 250mb/s. So I started looking into using other solutions for big data while I use jq in parallel for small data in multiple files.

I will test it out again cause this was 4-5 years ago when I last tested it, but I believe jaq is still preferred for large inputs. Still I prefer for big data to use Spark/Polars/clickhouse etc.
"Solve complex problems" < "Solve important problems"
That assumes the issues matter more to them than any of the hot-button political stuff they actually campaign around. Abortion, Gun control, etc.
LOL I almost spat out my dinner. Have an upvote.
Sure, but in every historical year they are also trying not to increase energy use, for cost reasons -- they have not been build-out limited. I don't think adding an additional 150% of historical average is especially challenging (beyond the huge OpEx expenditure, which isn't a problem for Meta).
I've long-described myself as an eliminativist about everything but consciousness :) I think there were some really interesting attempts to save classic architectures that were purpose-built to save the folk conception (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97814443104...), but ultimately I think we don't have the sort of neural architectures that support such a view.

Out of curiosity, have you read any of the newer attempts to vindicate the view that most now call illusionism? I doubt you will find it compelling, but leastwise it serves as an update with some pretty new arguments and fresh blood. You might find it amusing: https://philarchive.org/archive/KAMHCY-2
Getting wet in the wilderness can be a huge deal, especially when you stop moving.
Any software or hardware that I pay for and own should not only avoid providing consequences for me breaking the law, but actively protect me against law enforcement

I would pay more for an iPhone if Apple tried to legally obstruct every single law enforcement request in court
> Ok, but we shouldn't design our safety infrastructure based on some hypothetical, we should base it off the actual realities of the spaces the equipment will be operating in.

I think it's reasonable for a non-US person to discuss safety infrastructure based on the actual realities of non-US spaces - I agree that things need scaling up to work equivalently on your side of the pond but europe is not actually a hypothetical :)

Remember that a combination of stupidly written emissions regulations and the ... uniqueness ... of the USian psyche lead between them to your vehicles being comically huge to the rest of the world.

The first thought that comes to mind for a european when we see an F-150 is to feel sorry for the owner's girlfriend.
1) mass-ssh utility, that knows how to deal with cisco/juniper network equipment

2) llm use utility, so I can have llm conversations by editing documents (need to update this for llama3-70b btw, it works pretty well, and it's very reproducible. Or rather I made it reproducible)

3) my website, to help my kids through their classes. Half the pages/exercises were made by the LLM utility from point 2.

4) something to check the school website and get grades and ... of my kids, to help them pass the year (they've had to change languages multiple times in the past 2 years)

5) an attempt at automating something I like to do for my kids: create stamps with 3d printing
German TV Fee is significant older than AFD. Even the latest reform is older than AFD.
Lots more discussion on this other LA Times article then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977443
I like it. Takes some effort to get used but it sure does remove much of the usual BB mess. Some breadcrumb style widget on the top to show which level you are on could also be nice.
I quite like the "conclude thread" concept (though I couldn't get that button to do anything in the demo), and I'm one of those strange people who would like infinitely nested threads in Slack too...

But the issue with threads is always that people who aren't involved the side-discussion generally never read them. I think it might be nice to have every thread "concluded" with a "result" (summary, outcome, to-do list, etc) which is then injected back into the parent where everybody will see it. It could be manual, or it could be semi-automated with a LLM - I'm not generally a fan but this seems like a reasonable use case. I'd ideally like all the nested threads to naturally turn into a single linear summary of everything important that was decided.

The CQ2 thing also looks a bit too document-oriented, might be a good fit for a wiki or something like that but I think being able to open a thread for every single word is too fine-grained for a typical discussion.
Sometimes the instruction sets change (like the relatively recently added AVX10 extensions) and you have a workload that specifically needs those? I'm just guessing though.
I have a paid off house and zero debt. Sure I might be ahead if I had used some of the cash to buy stocks instead of paying down the house early, but I’m completely happy with my decision. There is no peace of mind like not owing anyone a cent and keeping your living expenses low. Having debt was incredibly stressful and no longer worrying about making payments is the best thing that’s ever happened to my mental health.
What else would(do) you program into a dishwasher?

Mine has like 6 buttons. Hot/Cold, Air Dry or heat dry, longer wash or shorter wash, and I think a start timer function that I can click a few times to add number of hours until it goes.
I think the term is already politically incorrect. Not because it’s not inclusive of machines but that it takes away or cheapens human labor.
Is this just restaurants?
Did you mean the page not showing the generated error messages? The actual error messages would be many gigabytes worth of text, and aren't as interesting as the entries that produced those error messages.
Here's a Reddit posting from a Costco worker from 5 years ago:

"So, as someone who's done this job, I gotta be completely honest to those of you bagging on us and calling us liars.

If a receipt shows under 20 items, we count. It's a very quick count to 20. Most people who work at the exit are actually counting your cart before you even hand the receipt over. So by the time the receipt is in your hands...they already know there's 15 items in your buggy. They look at the receipt for a split second, see the 15 at the bottom, mark it and hand it back. Easy.

Now, for carts with over 20 items...even packed with 100 items. The main things we check for are stuff on the bottom. Cases of water, TP, pop cases, etc. All those extra things that maybe a cashier misses. We're not gonna catch EVERYTHING and that's fine, we also don't want to keep you there all day long. Ideally the people at the register are doing their jobs right, sadly that's not always the case. 99 percent of the time, it's not due to theft. If you were genuinely trying to steal something, you wouldn't just leave it sitting in your cart. We also check for big items, bluetooth speakers, electronic items, etc. Also gift cards. Basically anything that requires a second check to make sure either the cashier got it, or the member has to pick it up."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/8uqhgw/how_much_is_...
Oh. Oh no. This is an extremely dangerous site for me to know about.
you are my group hahaha.

jokes apart, some great replies explain how.
The parallel intended was that if you propose a solution that is technically a fix but not feasible for some reason beyond preference, it's not going to help.

CPAP machines are often prescribed for people who are not necessarily at acute risk of death so much as having no consistent high quality sleep, which has a lot of complicated possible knock-on effects. Unfortunately, since it takes a long time sometimes to notice positive effects, while they're uncomfortable to use from the start (among other reasons), it becomes difficult to convince people to keep using them for unseen benefits. (To my understanding, yes, insurance will just stop paying for it if you don't hit some threshold of usage. I've not had insurance that did that, but I have personally known multiple people who had to avoid certain activities because they would have been away from electricity for too long.)

Similarly, if you suggest exercise, an activity that requires a significant investment of mental effort for many people to engage in absent habit, as a sole treatment for a condition where people sometimes cannot manage to invest enough effort to eat, an activity which many people enjoy doing, it will not be constructive.

(I'm not arguing against either as part of a larger treatment plan, but if you don't consider the reasons that people might not have done them beyond "I didn't know it was an option", then you will often end up giving advice that is technically correct but not usefully actionable.)
I've been checking about twice a week for the last 6 months, and they are very rare, but it does happen. I caught one on video 2 weeks ago! https://youtu.be/NkNx6tx3nu0?t=744
> 1. "Call us" pricing works because for big enterprise deals (4-7+ figures), there's often some serious negotiation involved and if you just show a sticker price up front, you risk a) scaring the buyer because the price is too high, b) losing the buyer because your competitor will just negotiate a better price than your listed price or b) leave yourself no room to negotiate if you really put your best price on the website.

I'd disagree and say this can go either way. As an enterprise buyer I know both MY budget and that all numbers are negotiable - to some extent. If you show me that this product costs $100k and my budget is $80k, I'll still talk to you. But if you list $100k and all I've got is $25k for the budget, yes, I'm going elsewhere.

Now you might argue "We can make something work" I'm concerned. You'll do 80% off deal? Clearly you don't think your product is worth what you list so... now I don't think so either. And the "But We've got a tier for that" then list it.

My time is way valuable to me. I do not want to go through 3 screening calls, a shit ton of hoops, and a 2 week wait... just to find out that your product is way too expensive for my budget. Especially when getting into those sales calls where the reps wanna play coy and say "Well whats your budget" or "Well it really depends, we want to get into a POC bla bla bla to understand your useless before providing a pricing". Ain't no one got time for that shit. Give me the MSRP up front (with the understanding that a deal may be reachable if it's a little much) or I'm walking.

Keep in mind that when I'm pricing your product I'm probably pricing 3 to 5 others. There is literally not enough hours left in my life to give each and every vendor a 5 hours of time in order to get a price.

Fortunately the world is shifting. You know who's pricing is available on their website? Salesforce. Okta. OneLogin. Ping. Slack. Github. Gitlab. AWS. Google. Microsoft (for some). Elastic. Tailscale. Adobe. Databricks. Datadog. Cloudflare. Zoom. ... The list goes on. In other words there are a lot of companies out there with their prices available on their website right this second. Sure, almost everyone of them has a "Enterprise call us for pricing" option and that's fine, as long as you've got something for me to start with.

If you're a software vendor and don't have some prices to start with, you're at a major disadvantage. Because your competitors often do. And price is not the only thing buyers are looking for. If it was, Okta would have no business. You can look at their prices and OneLogin and Ping's (and Azure AD and Google). The entire IAM/SSO space has their prices right out front and Okta is... the most expensive. Yet somehow they all still are selling.
I think you can get an effect similar to direct binding with symbol versioning.
Uncle Sam getting his cut is not what's being contested though when it comes to the securities conversation.
"Flagged as invasive" where? Every invasive species has a place where they're a perfectly nice local native.
The classics never go out of style. Mike Bostock has a nice article about the use of Make for data workflows: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make/.
How YC's founder-matching service helped AI startup Hona land $3M
I find that as soon as you introduce threads as a form of organization, you've already lost the plot with 75% of users.

One may argue that Facebook has threads, but I don't actually think people know how to use them. They simply click reply, say their piece, and then it's lost forever. They have no concept of structure.
> its tied to your insurance and its called max out of pocket

F that, if I paid for insurance I shouldn't have to pay anything out of pocket

> If you plan on seeking medical services without going through insurance, the ACA requires providers to provide you with a good faith estimate upfront.

F that, if there is any out of pocket payments at all, I should be entitled to estimates even WITH insurance and they should be legally mandated to be within 5% of the actual cost.
How do you quantify technical debt?

It doesn't seem possible to track percentage of code as debt. You can't put a comment on code and call this block either debt or good.

One way could be to measure different activities. If you spend time solving a lot of bugs (muda) then where are those bugs?

If they're in the same old code, does that code need rewritten? If they're in new code, is that code being written in a good way? Can better testing catch these?

"Technical debt" seems as hard to measure as developer productivity. It seems you need something you can actually put on a bar chart to measure the effects of having technical debt.
GCC also has (had?) an error limit. But because C++ compilers like to show you actual backtraces of how template instantiations led to the error condition, each single error message can easily have dozens of lines of context. That's how I got GCC to output 1MB of text for a single typo and the following parser confusion.
As I understand it, Azorian was just a cover story for the exploration and exploitation of certain technology artifacts which were deemed non-human in nature [0]. The Soviets knew exactly where their sub was but the CIA didn’t, so when Hughes found the artifacts while doing actual subsea prospecting they made up the Soviet sub story to get funding and cover. That Harvard professor [1] is using parallel construction to allow the artifacts to be revealed eventually without tipping everyone off the US has had the material for 50 years.

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/avi-loeb-harvard-profess...
Elia is a really nice TUI interface to LLMS (https://github.com/darrenburns/elia)

Toolong is a log file viewer / tailer (https://github.com/Textualize/toolong)
This is nearly perfect! I've been thinking of that problem and possible solutions as well, I am very glad you've done it.

1 loaded question though: who should have the rights for concluding threads? And a sub-question: should concluded threads be locked into read-only state? Or the other party should be able to continue the argument?